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posture matters. >> i was in the clinton state department, the clinton white house the last time there was a serious major effort to reach a deal that fell apart at the end. the thing i would say to you, we do not matter as much as we did in 1999. we are not the only dynamic that determines whether there is peace or war between israel and the palestinians, i would push back a little bit on what hussein said. while not taking away from u.s. responsibility. you put up those numbers at the beginning of the show. almost half the israeli population things it did didn't go far enough. people in the region are disgusted with their government options, it's not at all clear to me that either side would have the legitimacy to make a peace deal stick if we somehow did as you suggested as got engaged and managed to force the leaderships to get one. >> there's an institutional set-up. that the u.s. government says we're for a two-state solution. that's always the official policy. and then there's a set of ngos and institutions and groups that say they're from a two-step solution. apec. everything i
posture matters. >> i was in the clinton state department, the clinton white house the last time there was a serious major effort to reach a deal that fell apart at the end. the thing i would say to you, we do not matter as much as we did in 1999. we are not the only dynamic that determines whether there is peace or war between israel and the palestinians, i would push back a little bit on what hussein said. while not taking away from u.s. responsibility. you put up those numbers at the...
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at 28 years old joining bill clinton's security council, the youngest ever secretary of state. she was unanimously confirmed as the u.s. ambassador to the united nations. she's per sued u.s. interests including passage to revolutions, strict sanctions on iran and north korea. white house aids say she is favored by president obama to replace hillary clinton as secretary of state. rice's record, doing her job doesn't matter much to senator john mccain. what matters to the republican from arizona is rice went on television in the days after the deadly attacks in libya that killed chris stephens and three other americans and repeated the information the cia provided at the time. >> susan rice should have known better. if she didn't know better, she's not qualified. she has a lot of explaining to do. >> if appointed clears her of wrong doing besides not being very bright. i would do everything in my power from her being the united states secretary of state. >> i suppose i understand the republicans feel the administration hasn't paid a high political price for the benghazi attack. r
at 28 years old joining bill clinton's security council, the youngest ever secretary of state. she was unanimously confirmed as the u.s. ambassador to the united nations. she's per sued u.s. interests including passage to revolutions, strict sanctions on iran and north korea. white house aids say she is favored by president obama to replace hillary clinton as secretary of state. rice's record, doing her job doesn't matter much to senator john mccain. what matters to the republican from arizona...
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>> barack obama is not more conservative than bill clinton. i think from the outset of the clinton administration when he came in and abandon middle class tax cuts, economic stimulus, the reworking of welfare. that put him to the right of barack obama. that's why thisment will consolidate and win this all. barack obama is in a very position for reelection. >> i was on -- it's very hard to figure out how you score ideology over time. there's actually a metric called dw nominate. which is the metric used in the chart we had. it's harder on presidents. presidents don't take votes. it's based on congressional votes you're doing all the time. it's a much harder scoring process. >> puts more african-american men in jail than -- >> john mcwhorter. >> robert care owe's theory of lyndon johnson is about to finish up. as odd as it may be to bring that up on this show, that book, that series is a must-read for all-americans. i'm bringing it up in the impending departure of olympia snowe. >>> it's about 1800 pages total. >> it's a long series. but it will
>> barack obama is not more conservative than bill clinton. i think from the outset of the clinton administration when he came in and abandon middle class tax cuts, economic stimulus, the reworking of welfare. that put him to the right of barack obama. that's why thisment will consolidate and win this all. barack obama is in a very position for reelection. >> i was on -- it's very hard to figure out how you score ideology over time. there's actually a metric called dw nominate....
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he served in the clinton administration. he also writes the blog peace fair.net. daniel, you wrote about this. there was a really good piece of reporting from josh church at the "huffington post" talking to diplomats who were talking about their fear that in the wake of this what we're going to see is increased security, increased barricading of american embassies and that those -- the increased security comes at the cost of doing effective diplomacy. how have you experienced that as a diplomat yourself? how do you experience that tradeoff on the ground? >> well, especially in iraq we see very clearly that the american diplomats are incarcerated and warehoused in an embassy. they're not out talking to the population. they're not meeting people as frequently as they should. they're not giving speeches, cutting ribbons, doing all of the things that need to be done if you're to develop a rapport not only with the host government but with the host population and that's what diplomacy is all about is that comprehensive understanding of a society and, frankly, libya's a
he served in the clinton administration. he also writes the blog peace fair.net. daniel, you wrote about this. there was a really good piece of reporting from josh church at the "huffington post" talking to diplomats who were talking about their fear that in the wake of this what we're going to see is increased security, increased barricading of american embassies and that those -- the increased security comes at the cost of doing effective diplomacy. how have you experienced that as...
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people say i long for bill clinton. his legislative record is like this compared to obama's. >> people don't feel. >> part of it is because the affordable care act, which conviction in in 2014. >> i think president obama is framing a narrative. i don't think this election is going to be won on a record, i think it's going to be won on a narrative. they're framed, not based on facts, they're based on perception and feeling. if you're talking about the distance between the fact and a record, about an improving economy, versus the feeling of a populace that does not reflect the fact. you're not talking about the reality of the record, i think you're talking about the perception and the narrative. >> i think ultimately the engine of self-governance, democratic representation should link at some level. and the fact to me it seems the place where we get anchored to the bedrock of economic reality is the economy improving that's what all the political science models say about predepicting. >> but two challenges, one is that th
people say i long for bill clinton. his legislative record is like this compared to obama's. >> people don't feel. >> part of it is because the affordable care act, which conviction in in 2014. >> i think president obama is framing a narrative. i don't think this election is going to be won on a record, i think it's going to be won on a narrative. they're framed, not based on facts, they're based on perception and feeling. if you're talking about the distance between the fact...
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joe sestak from pennsylvania, three star admiral for the clinton national security council and former speech writer for condoleezza rice. the defining moment of tuesday night's presidential debate came between president obama and mitt romney on last month's attack in benghazi, libya. the issue was seen as a slam dunk for romney, but quickly turned into a political disaster. >> the day after the attack, governor, i stood in the rose garden and i told the american people and the world that we are going to find out exactly what happened, that this was an act of terror. >> i think it was interesting, the president said on the day after the attack, he went into the rose garden and said this was an act of terror. you said in the rose garden, the day after the attack, it was an act of terror. it was not a spontaneous demonstration, is that what you are saying? is that what you are saying? >> please proceed, governor. >> i want to make that clear for the record. it took him 14 days before he called it an attack. >> he did, in fact, sir. let me call it an act of terror. >> after that, romney d
joe sestak from pennsylvania, three star admiral for the clinton national security council and former speech writer for condoleezza rice. the defining moment of tuesday night's presidential debate came between president obama and mitt romney on last month's attack in benghazi, libya. the issue was seen as a slam dunk for romney, but quickly turned into a political disaster. >> the day after the attack, governor, i stood in the rose garden and i told the american people and the world that...
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hurlburt, executive director of the national security network and former speech writer for president bill clinton. re reza asian. phyllis bennis who directs the new barrier nationalism project at the institute for policy studies and zainab salbi founder of women for women international. it assists women survivors of war. the taliban are claiming responsibility for an attack on a british military base in afghanistan this morning that killed two u.s. marines. unlike previous attacks, this time the taliban says it was in response to the same anti-muslim film that set off a swell of violent protests in other parts of the region. libya, egypt, morocco, pakistan, algeria, kuwait, india, iraq just to name a few. in tunisia yesterday protesters breached the wall of the u.s. embassy where two people have died and 29 others have been hurt. in sudan, meanwhile, demonstrators got both the u.s. and german embassies and managed to set fire to the latter. a 14-minute video on youtube called "the innocence of muslims." nbc news has decided not to show any images from the film. the man behind the film, an egyptia
hurlburt, executive director of the national security network and former speech writer for president bill clinton. re reza asian. phyllis bennis who directs the new barrier nationalism project at the institute for policy studies and zainab salbi founder of women for women international. it assists women survivors of war. the taliban are claiming responsibility for an attack on a british military base in afghanistan this morning that killed two u.s. marines. unlike previous attacks, this time...
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so -- part of it, too, was that the -- that primary didn't force either clinton or obama to shift radically to the left. they weren't kind of pandering and taking positions that weren't going to fly when they -- >> i want to -- i want to -- put up a sort of pin in this conversation which we will continue as we go ahead because there is just so much remarkable eye-opening news from outside of the united states. turn our attention to syrian government launches an assault on its own civilians using mortar and tags of at least 200 dead. eli lakes, senior national security of the daily beat joins us next. i love that my daughter's part fish. but when she got asthma, all i could do was worry ! specialists, lots of doctors, lots of advice... and my hands were full. i couldn't sort through it all. with unitedhealthcare, it's different. we have access to great specialists, and our pediatrician gets all the information. everyone works as a team. and i only need to talk to one person about her care. we're more than 78,000 people looking out for 70 million americans. that's health in numbers. unitedhea
so -- part of it, too, was that the -- that primary didn't force either clinton or obama to shift radically to the left. they weren't kind of pandering and taking positions that weren't going to fly when they -- >> i want to -- i want to -- put up a sort of pin in this conversation which we will continue as we go ahead because there is just so much remarkable eye-opening news from outside of the united states. turn our attention to syrian government launches an assault on its own...
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on friday in tunisia, secretary of state hillary clinton suggested a syrian military coup could topple assad. later, president obama was asked about the situation in syria. >> we are going to continue to keep the pressure up and look for every tool available to prevent the slaughter of innocents in syria. it's important that we not be bystanders during these extraordinary events. >> still, the international community seems to be at a loss over what to do next. one of our panelists has a suggestion. ann marie slaughter wrote an op-ed in "the new york times" on thursday with the title "how to halt the butchery in syria." in it, she writes, "simply arming the opposition, in many ways the easiest option, would bring about exactly the scenario the world should fear most, a proxy war that would spill sb lebanon, turkey, iraq, and yordÁn and fracture syria along sectarian lines. it could also allow al qaeda and other terrorist groups to gain a foothold in syria and perhaps gain access to chemical and biological weapons. there is an alternative. the friends of syria, some 70 countries schedul
on friday in tunisia, secretary of state hillary clinton suggested a syrian military coup could topple assad. later, president obama was asked about the situation in syria. >> we are going to continue to keep the pressure up and look for every tool available to prevent the slaughter of innocents in syria. it's important that we not be bystanders during these extraordinary events. >> still, the international community seems to be at a loss over what to do next. one of our panelists...
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it's front noted by bill clinton. it's a phenomenony well-written book, soulful and careful and it's really excellent. i have that kind of twinge of writerly jealousy while reading because it's really well done. why did you write the book? it's about essentially, well here's the first question. what is the crisis of zionism? >> the crisis of zionism is that for me, the miracle of the creation of the state of israel, the reason that my 6-year-old son has an israeli flag on his wall is that 1948, with the stench of jewish death still hanging over europe, with israel fielding an army full of people who had numbers tattooed on their arms from the concentration çcamps. israel wrote a constitution that promised complete social and economic rights. the crisis is when you control the west bank for 44 years, a place where jews have citizenship and the right to vote and live under civil law and palestinians are noncitizens, don't have the right to vote, live under military law, have their movement radically restricted, you de
it's front noted by bill clinton. it's a phenomenony well-written book, soulful and careful and it's really excellent. i have that kind of twinge of writerly jealousy while reading because it's really well done. why did you write the book? it's about essentially, well here's the first question. what is the crisis of zionism? >> the crisis of zionism is that for me, the miracle of the creation of the state of israel, the reason that my 6-year-old son has an israeli flag on his wall is that...
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test of the capability of the legislative process to raise marginal rates, which we haven't done since clinton. right, it's been since, i guess, '93 that budget. >> marginal rate increase in the health care law. >> that's true. and capital gains tax increase of 2.81%. so, this question of whether we can do this, i think, is still remains as really core question. whether the justifications are that we need to raise revenue for the government or this fairness argument, to me, it ends up being a test of how strong our democratic system is. >> but i think it really is the failure of the left to make the positive case for government. you basically made the case for higher taxes that even if we gathered up all the money and burned it, it would still be a good thing. you believe that, but you're not going to sell that to the public. if you want to sell tax increases, you have to do what was done in europe that the government is worth paying for and it's worth everybody paying for. when you have both political parties not making the case that government did something not worth paying for and we want t
test of the capability of the legislative process to raise marginal rates, which we haven't done since clinton. right, it's been since, i guess, '93 that budget. >> marginal rate increase in the health care law. >> that's true. and capital gains tax increase of 2.81%. so, this question of whether we can do this, i think, is still remains as really core question. whether the justifications are that we need to raise revenue for the government or this fairness argument, to me, it ends...
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john kerry who is replacing hillary clinton, chuck hagel, you had to support the iraq war to maintain credibility in u.s. national security circles even though the exact opposite should be true, that people who did that aught to be extremely discredited. >> at the end of the day chuck hagel is a republican realist. i don't know why that's so toxic within the republican foreign policy circles because there's just -- >> it really is, that's so remarkab remarkable. i thought after bush and the second iraq war when condoleezza rice was against the neo kan voices we would see the descendant part of the republican policy and it is not. >> i do talk at ron paul a fair amount so i'll limit myself, but that's a strain ron paul captured this election cycle with republicans. they are sick of war just like the rest of america. >> the reason is that the lobby in washington is extremely powerful. we keep wondering why they still yield power, but that's ultimately the reason. they have extreme power in washington. it's the same reason gun control is so hard to get. there are powerful lobbies and the
john kerry who is replacing hillary clinton, chuck hagel, you had to support the iraq war to maintain credibility in u.s. national security circles even though the exact opposite should be true, that people who did that aught to be extremely discredited. >> at the end of the day chuck hagel is a republican realist. i don't know why that's so toxic within the republican foreign policy circles because there's just -- >> it really is, that's so remarkab remarkable. i thought after bush...
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so i think bill clinton really nailed it at the convention. he said -- i think you do have a point, the economy is not in good shape. the middle voters, which are the voters -- who are the voters that mitt romney needs to speak to, what they're hearing is that we want to reduce taxes on the rich and deregulate again. that's what got us into trouble. you know, if they think that we are just going to repeat the things that brought us the terrible problems we had in 2007 and 2008, that's not going to resonate. i don't think that is his message and that's what's coming across. they need to focus on that and not whose poll is right. >> do you think that's the product of some tactical errors or the product of a broader shift in the balance of power within the coalition that is the republican party? >> i think it is part of the balance of power. there's a certain -- ats the extreme, there's a certain core that just wants to unseat this incumbent no matter what and they don't understand that you need to provide an alternative. people are not going to
so i think bill clinton really nailed it at the convention. he said -- i think you do have a point, the economy is not in good shape. the middle voters, which are the voters -- who are the voters that mitt romney needs to speak to, what they're hearing is that we want to reduce taxes on the rich and deregulate again. that's what got us into trouble. you know, if they think that we are just going to repeat the things that brought us the terrible problems we had in 2007 and 2008, that's not going...
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, clinton, gore, kerry and obama voted republican. and it strikes me that there's something going into the presidential race that democrats have to start thinking about as regards how they communicate with small cities and rural areas and i'm wondering where you're thinking on that and how you approach that. >> that's great question, john. democrats have for some time been challenged in how they communicate directly with rural america. obviously, we did exceedingly well in a rural turf and in urban turf in 2008 campaign. fortunately for us, we have never left those precincts. between election cycles, we were out knocking on doors and pushing message and communicating with voters on all the important reforms over the course of the last years in in rural pennsylvania, rural ohio, rural wisconsin and other states there is an infrastructure that still exists there that we will lean on the next eight months. if i could, i want to push back a bit on the notion that somehow, their operation outclassed democratic operation on the ground. i th
, clinton, gore, kerry and obama voted republican. and it strikes me that there's something going into the presidential race that democrats have to start thinking about as regards how they communicate with small cities and rural areas and i'm wondering where you're thinking on that and how you approach that. >> that's great question, john. democrats have for some time been challenged in how they communicate directly with rural america. obviously, we did exceedingly well in a rural turf...